Of Poetry Podcast

Emilia Phillips: Of Queering Eve, Stanzaic Shape, and Intimate Community

March 29, 2024 12:25 - 48 minutes - 66.2 MB

Read: Book X and Book VII from "The Queerness of Eve" Purchase: Nonbinary Bird of Paradise (University of Akron Press, 2024) Emilia Phillips (they/them) is a poet, nonfiction writer, and book reviewer. They are the author of five poetry collections from the University of Akron Press, including Nonbinary Bird of Paradise (forthcoming February 2024) and Embouchure (2021), and four chapbooks. Winner of a 2019 Pushcart Prize, 2015 StoryQuarterly Nonfiction Prize, and the 2012 The Jour...

The Line Break / Of Poetry Crossover with Chris Corlew and Bob Sykora and Han VanderHart

March 26, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour - 82.2 MB

Chris Corlew is a writer and musician living in Chicago. His work has appeared in Cotton Xenomorph, Whisk(e)y Tit, Kicking Your Ass, Cracked.com, and elsewhere. With Bob Sykora, he co-hosts The Line Break, a podcast about poetry and basketball. With Brendan Johnson, he is ½ of Lazy & Entitled, the band that writes novels. You can find more Chris on Bluesky @thecorlew, a storiesfromvine.com, or at shipwreckedsailor.substack.com. Bob Sykora is the author of the chapbook I Was Talking...

Amorak Huey and Han VanderHart (River River Books): Of Choosing Abundance, Creating a Small Press Community, and Weathering Manuscript Rejections

March 18, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour - 116 MB

Read: Amorak Huey's "Estuary, Delta, Confluence, Mouth" and Han VanderHart's "Larks"(Up the Staircase Quarterly) Purchase: Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress, 2021) and What Pecan Light (Bull City Press, 2021) Amorak Huey is author of four books of poems including Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress Publications, 2021). Co-author with W. Todd Kaneko of the textbook Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2018) and the chapbook Slash/Slash (Diod...

Carla Sofia Ferreira (Of Elegiac Odes, Semicolons, and Witness)

February 26, 2024 07:00 - 58 minutes - 80.3 MB

Read: "Ode to the Empanadas on Pacific & Elm, with Apologies to William Carlos Williams" in Okay Donkey Mag Purchase: A Geography That Does Not Hurt Us (River River Books, 2024) Carla Sofia Ferreira (she/her) is the daughter of Portuguese immigrants and a teacher from Newark, New Jersey. Author of micro-chapbook Ironbound Fados (Ghost City Press, 2019) and debut poetry book A Geography That Does Not Hurt Us (River River Books, 2024), her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart ...

Catherine Rockwood (Of Pirates, the Event of the Image, and Angelic Sex)

February 16, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 90.5 MB

Read: "A Poem for Retired Lighthouses," Little Blue Marble Purchase: And We Are Far From Shore: Poems for Our Flag Means Death (Ethel Zine Press, 2023) Catherine Rockwood (she/they) lives in Massachusetts. She reads and edits for Reckoning Magazine and reviews books for Strange Horizons. Their poetry chapbooks, And We Are Far From Shore: Poems for Our Flag Means Death (2023) and Endeavors To Obtain Perpetual Motion (2022) are available from the Ethel Zine Press. Recommended Read...

Tom Snarsky (Of Minisons, Math, and More About Long Poems)

February 05, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 90 MB

Read: Neutral Spaces, for more of Tom Snarsky's poetry Purchase: Reclaimed Water (Ornithopter Press, 2023) Tom Snarsky is the author of the chapbooks Threshold (Another New Calligraphy) & Complete Sentences (Broken Sleep Books), as well as the full-length collections Light-Up Swan and Reclaimed Water (both from Ornithopter Press). He lives in the mountains of northwestern Virginia with his wife Kristi and their cats. You can find him @tomsnarsky on Twitter, Instagram, & Bluesky, a...

Carolyn Hembree (Of Long Poems, Inger Christensen's Alphabet, and Writing Disaster)

January 19, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 97.6 MB

Read: Carolyn Hembree's poem April 2020 Purchase: For Today (LSU Press, 2024) Carolyn Hembree's third poetry collection, For Today, is forthcoming from LSU Press. She is also the author of Skinny and Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague, winner of the Trio Award and the Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award. Her poems appear in Beloit Poetry Journal, Copper Nickel, Poetry Daily, The Southern Review, and other publications. She teaches in the MFA program a...

Rachel Edelman (Of Memphis, Geology, and Water)

January 08, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 110 MB

Read: "Dear Memphis," at Terrain.org Purchase: Dear Memphis (River River Books, 2023) Rachel Edelman is a Jewish poet raised in Memphis, Tennessee whose writing explores diasporic living. Dear Memphis, their debut collection of poems, will be published by River River Books in 2024. Her poems have appeared in Narrative, The Seventh Wave, The Threepenny Review, West Branch, and many other journals. They have received material support from City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, th...

Erin Malone (Of Bears, Memory, and Doors)

December 27, 2023 14:04 - 1 hour - 82.9 MB

Read: Four Poems by Erin Malone, in Electric Literature. Purchase: Site of Disappearance (Ornithopter Press, 2023) Erin Malone’s new book, Site of Disappearance, was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and is out now from Ornithopter Press. She’s also the author of Hover (Tebot Bach Press, 2015), and a chapbook, What Sound Does It Make (Concrete Wolf, 2008). Her recent honors include the Coniston Prize from Radar Poetry and the Robert Creeley Memorial Prize from Marsh Hawk P...

Steven Leyva (Of Anti-Confession, Zydeco, and Clarity)

December 12, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 94.9 MB

Read: "Here is a Sea We Cannot Call Sea" in Scalawag Purchase: The Understudy's Handbook (WWPH, 2020). Steven Leyva was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and raised in Houston, Texas. His poems have appeared in Smartish Pace, Scalawag, Nashville Review, jubilat, The Hopkins Review, Prairie Schooner, and Best American Poetry 2020. He is a Cave Canem fellow and author of the chapbook Low Parish and author of The Understudy’s Handbook which won the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize from Washing...

Anna V.Q. Ross (Of Self-Portraits, Foxes, and Leaving For Good)

November 29, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 98.5 MB

Read: "Self Portrait with Arithmetic," "Self-Portrait Without Wings," and "Self-Portrait as Smaller Moon" at The Brooklyn Quarterly Purchase: Flutter, Kick by Anna V. Q. Ross (Red Hen Press, 2022) Anna V.Q. Ross's previous collections include If a Storm (Anhinga Press, winner of the Robert Dana-Anhinga Prize for Poetry); Figuring (Bull City Press); and Hawk Weather (winner the New Women’s Voices Prize from Finishing Line Press and the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award from the New Engla...

Lauren Camp (Of Mystery, Agnes Martin, and Silence as Bounty)

November 07, 2023 08:00 - 52 minutes - 96.2 MB

Listen: On Apple, Spotify, Google and elsewhere Read: "Must Learn Neither," at Poetry Daily Purchase: An Eye in Each Square (River River Books, 2023) Lauren Mukamal Camp, New Mexico Poet Laureate, is the author of seven poetry collections, most recently An Eye in Each Square (River River Books, 2023) and Worn Smooth Between Devourings (NYQ Books, 2023). She was awarded a 2023 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship. Other honors include a Dorset Prize and finalist citations...

Jennifer A Sutherland (Of Fashion, Negative Capability, and Octopuses)

September 15, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 112 MB

Read: "My Devices, My" at Cagibi and excerpt from Bullet Points at Parhelion Review. Purchase: Bullet Points (River River Books, 2023) Jennifer A Sutherland is a poet, essayist, and attorney living in Baltimore, Maryland. Her work has appeared or will appear in Hopkins Review, Best New Poets, Denver Quarterly, I-70 Review, Cagibi, Appalachian Review, and elsewhere. Reading Recommendation: Hart Crane, Linda Hull, Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know

Moira J. Saucer and Catherine Rockwood (Of Interruption, Griefwork, Raspberries and Drift Roses)

September 05, 2023 13:03 - 1 hour - 152 MB

Purchase: Wiregrass and Other Poems by Moira J. Saucer and Endeavors to Obtain Perpetual Motion by Catherine Rockwood Moira J Saucer is a disabled poet living in the Alabama Wiregrass. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Her worked has appeared in literary magazines and anthologies in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada including Black Bough Poetry Freedom- Rapture anthology, Visual Verse, Fly on the Wall Press, Ice Floe...

Jason Myers (Of Taste, Music, and Coming to Our Senses)

August 14, 2023 14:56 - 1 hour - 101 MB

Read: Read "Eucharist" in Diagram Purchase: Maker of Heaven & at Belle Point Press Jason Myers is the author of Maker of Heaven & (Belle Point Press, 2023) and A Place for the Genuine (Eerdmans, 2024). Myers is a National Poetry Series finalist and has published poetry and essays in The Believer, Image, Kenyon Review, Orion, The Paris Review, and numerous other magazines. His writing has been nominated for a Pushcart and Best New Poets and was introduced by Campbell McGrath as par...

Destiny Hemphill (Of Ritual, Tenderness, and Speculative Nonfiction)

July 26, 2023 15:58 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MB

Listen: On Apple, Spotify, Google and elsewhere Read: "we ask mama-n-em, 'where is the motherworld?'" (Split This Rock) Purchase: motherworld: a devotion for the alter-life (action books, 2023) Destiny Hemphill (she/her) is a ritual worker and poet based in Durham, NC. A recipient of fellowships from Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program, Callaloo, Tin House, and Kenyon’s Writers Workshop, she is the author of the poetry chapbook Oracle: a Cosmology (Honeysuckle Press, 2018...

Len Lawson (Of Asylums, Poetic Histories, and Rest)

May 17, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 60.1 MB

Read: "Psychology for Black Folk" at Jasper Project Purchase: Negro Asylum for the Lunatic Insane (Main Street Rag, 2023) Len Lawson is author of Negro Asylum for the Lunatic Insane (Main Street Rag, 2023), Chime (Get Fresh Books, 2019), and the chapbook Before the Night Wakes You (Finishing Line Press, 2017). He is also co-editor of The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry (Blair Press, 2021) and Hand in Hand: Poets Respond to Race (Muddy Ford Press, ...

Caelan Ernest (Of Cyborgs and Parties, Publicity, and Transcending Binaries)

March 16, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 94.7 MB

Read: “put ur phone down for a sec” from night mode in Blush Lit Purchase: night mode (Everybody Press, 2023) Caelan Ernest is a poet and a performer. They are the author of two forthcoming collections: night mode and ICONOCLAST, being published in 2023 and 2024 respectively by Everybody Press. They received their MFA in Writing from Pratt Institute. They are Publicist at Graywolf Press. They live in Brooklyn with their cat named Salad. More reading and viewing recommendations fr...

Stephanie Burt (Of Mermaids, Punctuation, and Queer Community Formation)

January 27, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 96.7 MB

Read: "Whale Watch" at Turbine Purchase: We Are Mermaids (Graywolf Press, 2022) Stephanie Burt is Professor of English at Harvard and the author of several books of poems and literary criticism, most recently WE ARE MERMAIDS (Graywolf, 2022), AFTER CALLIMACHUS: Poems and Translations (Princeton UP, 2020) and DON'T READ POETRY: A Book About How to Read Poems (Basic, 2019). In addition to poetry things, she writes about trans stuff and pop music and comic book superheroes for Comics...

Sara Lefsyk (Of Escapism, Writing Residencies, and Ethel Zine)

January 16, 2023 07:00 - 53 minutes - 73.4 MB

Sara Lefsyk is Head Ethel over at Ethel Zine & Micro Press. Her book We Are Hopelessly Small and Modern Birds is published with Black Lawrence Press, 2018, and she has work previously published in Bateau, The Greensboro Review, The New Orleans Review, Phoebe, Poetry City, and Tinderbox among others. Read: "When They Taught Me How to Slit the Bird," at Tinderbox Purchase: We Are Hopelessly Small and Modern Birds (Black Lawrence Press, 2018) and the Ethel Zine! Read Also: Leonora ...

K. Iver (Of Queer Narrative, Negation, and Southern Elegy)

January 09, 2023 20:59 - 55 minutes - 75.7 MB

Read: "Family of Origin Rewrite: 1982" in The Common Purchase: Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco (Milkweed Editions, 2023) K. Iver is a nonbinary trans poet from Mississippi. Their poems have appeared in Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Puerto del Sol, Salt Hill, TriQuarterly, The Adroit, and elsewhere. Their book Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco won the 2022 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry and is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions. Iver is the 2021-2022 Ronald Walla...

Laura Jaramillo (Of River Culture, Sequences, and War Machines)

December 12, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 91.2 MB

Read: "War Machine" at The Tiny Mag Purchase: Making Water (Futurepoem, 2022) Laura Jaramillo is a poet and critic from Queens, New York living in Durham, North Carolina. Her books include Material Girl (subpress, 2012) and Making Water (Futurepoem, 2022). She holds a PhD in critical theory from Duke University. She co-runs the North Carolina-based reading and performance series Paradiso. Read More: Lyn Hejinian: My Life and My Life in the Nineties Mina Loy: Anglo-Mongrels and ...

Laura Minor (Of Heart, Authors' Prayers, and Ripening)

November 09, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 92.7 MB

Listen: On the web, or at your favorite player (Google, Apple, Spotify) Read: "Flowers as Mind Control" at Queen Mob's Teahouse. Purchase: Flowers as Mind Control (BkMk Press, 2021) Laura Minor’s critically acclaimed debut book of poems, Flowers as Mind Control, won the 2020 John Ciardi Poetry Prize and is published by the University of Arkansas Press, 2022. Laura won the I.L.A.’s Rita Dove Poetry Award (chosen by Marilyn Nelson) and the Emerging Writers Spotlight Award (chosen ...

Bronwen Tate (Of Lexicons, Milk, and Description)

September 19, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 84.9 MB

Read: "Moon Without Possible Approach" at Tin Fish Press. Purchase: The Silk the Moths Ignore (Inlandia Books, 2021) Bronwen Tate teaches poetry, creative nonfiction, and creative writing pedagogy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She is the author of the poetry collection The Silk the Moths Ignore and a contributor to the collaborative book-length poem Midwinter Constellation. Bronwen’s poems and essays have appeared in Bennington Review, CV2, Grain, The Rumpus,...

Shelley Wong (Of Quietness, Fire Island, and Looking at Each Other)

May 24, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 85.5 MB

Read: Shelley Wong's poem "To Yellow," which she reads on Episode 24. Shelley Wong is the author of As She Appears (YesYes Books, May 2022), winner of the 2019 Pamet River Prize. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review, and New England Review. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from Kundiman, MacDowell, and Vermont Studio Center. She is an affiliate artist at Headlands Center for the Arts and lives in San Francisc...

jason b. crawford (Of Queer Black Language, Phantom Safety, and Debt)

April 25, 2022 16:09 - 1 hour - 84.4 MB

Listen: On Apple, Spotify, Google and elsewhere Read: "Unicorn Kidz Dance Under the Moonlight, Too" at SplitLip jason b. crawford (They/Them) is a writer born in Washington DC, raised in Lansing, MI. Their debut chapbook collection Summertime Fine is out through Variant Lit. Their second chapbook Twerkable Moments is out from Paper Nautilus Press. Their third chapbook, Good Boi, is out from Neon Hemlock press. Their debut Full Length Year of the Unicorn Kidz will be out in 2022 fr...

Marlanda Dekine (Of Coming Home, Staying in the Body, and Gullah-Geechee Pronouns)

March 21, 2022 12:47 - 1 hour - 83.1 MB

Read: "Hurricane Family," published at Moist Poetry Journal. Marlanda Dekine’s debut full-length poetry collection, Thresh & Hold, is the winner of Hub City Press's 2021 New Southern Voices Poetry Prize and is forthcoming in March 2022. MARLANDA DEKINE’S WORK HAS BEEN PUBLISHED OR IS FORTHCOMING IN OXFORD AMERICAN, POETRY, EMERGENCE MAGAZINE, BEESTUNG, ANNULET, SHUDDHASHAR MAGAZINE, AND ELSEWHERE. THEY ARE THE 2021-2022 CASTLE OF OUR SKINS SHIRLEY GRAHAM DU BOIS CREATIVE-IN-RESIDE...

Lenard D. Moore (Of Jazz, Haiku, and Community)

February 28, 2022 07:00 - 57 minutes - 79.6 MB

Listen: On Apple, Spotify, Google, and more Read: a selection of haiku by Lenard D. Moore at the North Carolina Haiku Society Lenard D. Moore is an internationally acclaimed poet and anthologist. His literary works have been published in more than sixteen countries and translated into more than twelve languages. His poems, essays, short stories and book reviews have appeared in more than 400 publications. His poems have appeared in more than 100 anthologies. He has taught Creati...

Amanda Moore (Of Bee Keeping, California Light, and Haibun)

February 14, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 100 MB

Listen: On Apple, Spotify, Google and elsewhere. Read: Amanda Moore's poem "Labor as an Exotic Vacation," which she reads on Episode 20. Amanda Moore’s debut collection of poetry, Requeening, was selected for the 2020 National Poetry Series by Ocean Vuong and published by HarperCollins/Ecco in October 2021. Her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies including Best New Poets, ZZYZVA, and Mamas and Papas: On the Sublime and Heartbreaking Art of Parenting, and her essays ha...

Donna Vorreyer (Of Love, Ritual, and Ordinary Joy)

January 31, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 100 MB

Donna Vorreyer is the author of To Everything There Is (2020), Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story (2016) and A House of Many Windows (2013), all from Sundress Publications. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Waxwing, Poet Lore, Cherry Tree, Salamander, Harpur Palate, and other journals. She lives in the suburbs of Chicago where she serves as an associate editor for Rhino Poetry and hosts the monthly online reading series A Hundred Pitchers of Honey. Purchase: ...

Twila Newey and Natalie Solmer (Of Water, Gardens, and Caretaking)

January 03, 2022 07:00 - 2 hours - 185 MB

Twila Newey has an M.F.A. in Writing and Poetics from Naropa. Her poems were finalists for the 2019 Coniston Prize at Radar Poetry and won honorable mention in the 2019 JuxtaProse Poetry Contest. You can read recent work at Interim Poetics, Sugarhouse Review, Green Mountains Review, and Moist Poetry journal. Twila lives in Northern California at the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers. Read: Twila's poems "honeycomb" and "Theories of Heaven" at Green Mountain Review...

Kasey Jueds (Of Animals, Silence, and Folk Tales)

December 01, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 85.9 MB

Read: Kasey Jueds' poem "Kittatinny," which she reads on the episode. Kasey Jueds a poet living in the Catskill Mountains in New York. Kasey poems have appeared or are forthcoming in publications including American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Bennington Review, Cave Wall, Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Narrative, Ninth Letter, Pleiades, Provincetown Arts, River Styx, Salamander, The Southampton Review, Tinderbox, and Waxwing.Kasey has be...

Chloe Martinez (Of Mandalas, Bad Poets, and Claiming Identity)

November 23, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 92.2 MB

Read: "Mandala of the Soapy Water," that Chloe reads on the episode Chloe Martinez is a poet and a scholar of South Asian religions. She is the author of the collection Ten Thousand Selves (The Word Works) and the chapbook Corner Shrine (Backbone Press). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in AGNI, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah and elsewhere. She works at Claremont McKenna College. Purchase: Ten Thousand Selves (The Word Works, 2021)

Angie Mazakis (Of Prizes, Phonelessness, and Itinerancy)

November 15, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 111 MB

Read: Angie Mazakis's poem "Oh, My Kidneys," which she reads on the episode, and Han’s review of I Was Waiting to See What You Would Do First. Angie Mazakis's first book of poetry, I Was Waiting to See What You Would Do First, was chosen by Billy Collins as a finalist for the 2020 Miller Williams Prize and was published by University of Arkansas Press in March 2020. The book was also a finalist for the National Poetry Series and was named by The Boston Globe as one of the Best Book...

Alina Stefanescu (Of Longing, Teleology, and Labor)

November 08, 2021 07:00 - 57 minutes - 79.6 MB

Listen: On Apple, Google, Spotify, and elsewhere. Read: Alina's poem "Apologia," which she reads on Episode 14. Alina Stefanescu was born in Romania and lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her partner and several intense mammals. Recent books include a creative nonfiction chapbook, Ribald (Bull City Press Inch Series, Nov. 2020) and Dor, which won the Wandering Aengus Press Prize (September, 2021). Her debut fiction collection, Every Mask I Tried On, won the Brighthorse Books Prize ...

Christian J. Collier (Of Chattanooga, Names, and Horror)

November 02, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 85.9 MB

Read: Christian's poem "when my days fill with ghosts" at Hayden's Ferry Review, which Christian reads on the episode. Christian J. Collier is a Black, Southern writer, arts organizer, and teaching artist who resides in Chattanooga, TN. His works have appeared or are forthcoming in Hayden’s Ferry Review,The Michigan Quarterly Review, Atlanta Review, Grist Journal, and elsewhere. A 2015 Loft Spoken Word Immersion Fellow, he is also the winner of the 2020 ProForma Contest and the 201...

Amorak Huey (Of Dads, Odysseus, and American Myth)

October 25, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 91.3 MB

Read: Amorak Huey's poem "CHILDHOOD GOES KALEIDOSCOPE, KALEIDOSCOPE, KALEIDOSCOPE, GUN" at American Poetry Review Amorak Huey is a poet and professor, a writer and sometime journalist, a decent dad and a mediocre slow-pitch softball player. He pronounces his first name uh-MOR-ack. Amorak is author of four poetry collections: Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress Publications, 2021); Boom Box (Sundress Publications, 2019); Seducing the Asparagus Queen (Cloudbank Books, 20...

Lyd Havens (Of Form, Similes, and Saints)

October 18, 2021 06:00 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MB

Read: Lyd Havens' poem "I only mis-gender myself when Fleetwood Mac comes on" (flypaper lit), which they read on Episode 11 Lyd Havens is a reader and writer currently living in Boise, Idaho. Their work has previously been published in Ploughshares, The Shallow Ends, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and Foglifter, among others. They are the author of the chapbook I Gave Birth to All the Ghosts Here (Nostrovia! Press, 2018), the winner of the 2018 ellipsis… Poetry Prize, a finalist for the...

Anuja Ghimire and Burgi Zenhaeusern (Of Place, Dreams, and Borders)

October 11, 2021 06:00 - 55 minutes - 76.4 MB

Read: Anuja Ghimire's poem "Orlando" and Burgi Zenhaeusern's "Self-Portrait as Granatöpfel" Anuja Ghimire is a Nepal-born writer of poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction. She is the author of Kathmandu (Unsolicited Press, 2020), fable-weavers (Ethelzine, 2022), and two poetry books in Nepali. A Best of the Net and Pushcart nominee, Anuja works as a senior publisher in an online learning company. She reads poetry for Up the Staircase Quarterly and enjoys teaching poetry t...

Episode 10: Anuja Ghimire and Burgi Zenhaeusern (Of Place, Dreams, and Borders)

October 11, 2021 06:00 - 55 minutes - 76.4 MB

Read: Anuja Ghimire's poem "Orlando" and Burgi Zenhaeusern's "Self-Portrait as Granatöpfel" Anuja Ghimire is a Nepal-born writer of poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction. She is the author of Kathmandu (Unsolicited Press, 2020), fable-weavers (Ethelzine, 2022), and two poetry books in Nepali. A Best of the Net and Pushcart nominee, Anuja works as a senior publisher in an online learning company. She reads poetry for Up the Staircase Quarterly and enjoys teaching poetry t...

Esteban Rodríguez (Of Recuerdo, Recovery, and The Valley)

October 04, 2021 06:00 - 49 minutes - 68.1 MB

Read: Several poems from The Valley. Esteban Rodríguez is the author of five poetry collections, most recently The Valley (Sundress Publications 2021), and the essay collection Before the Earth Devours Us (Split/Lip Press 2021). He is the Interviews Editor for the EcoTheo Review, Senior Book Reviews Editor for Tupelo Quarterly, and Associate Poetry Editor for AGNI. He currently lives in central Texas. Purchase: The Valley and Before the Earth Devours Us.

Laura Wetherington (Of After Poems, Translation, and Birds)

September 20, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 99.5 MB

Read: "Dear Hannah," and other poems Laura Wetherington’s first book, A Map Predetermined and Chance (Fence Books 2011), was selected by C.S. Giscombe for the National Poetry Series. The Brooklyn Rail called the book “humble, folksy, romantic, tough, inventive, and not over-programmed.” Her second book, Parallel Resting Places, was chosen by Peter Gizzi for the New Measure Prize, was released with Free Verse Editions in January 2021. She has published three chapbooks: Dick Erasures...

Jessica Q. Stark (Of Archive, Documentary Play, and Hunger)

September 13, 2021 06:00 - 49 minutes - 68.6 MB

Read: Jessica's poem "The Ballad of the Red Wisteria" Jessica Q. Stark is a California-native, Vietnamese American poet, editor, and educator that lives in Jacksonville, Florida. She holds a BA from UC Berkeley and dual MA Degrees in English Literature and Cultural Studies from Saint Louis University’s Madrid Campus. She received her PhD in English from Duke University. She has published scholarly articles on poetry and comics studies and teaches writing at the University of North ...

C.T. Salazar (of Souths, Sonnets, and Nonbinary Poetics)

September 06, 2021 06:00 - 46 minutes - 63.9 MB

Read: Four of C.T.’s American Cavewall Sonnets C.T. Salazar is a Latinx poet and librarian from Mississippi. His debut collection, Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking is forthcoming in 2022 from Acre Books. He’s the author of three chapbooks, most recently American Cavewall Sonnets (Bull City Press, 2021). He’s the 2020 recipient of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters award in poetry. His poems have appeared in The Rumpus, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cincinnati Review, 32 Po...

Kelly Cressio-Moeller (Of Bees, Ekphrasis, and First Books)

August 30, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 56.6 MB

Read: An interview with Kelly Cressio-Moeller at ZYZZYVA. Kelly Cressio-Moeller is a poet and visual artist. Her poems have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, Best New Poets, Best of the Net and have appeared widely in journals and at literary websites including Gargoyle, North American Review, Poet Lore, Salamander, THRUSH Poetry Journal, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Water~Stone Review, and ZYZZYVA, among others. She is an associate editor at Glass Lyre Press. She lives in the Bay A...

Carla Sofia Ferreira (Of Newark, Eurydice, and Cherry Blossoms)

August 23, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 93.2 MB

Read: Carla’s Chapbook Ironbound Fados and her craft chap Eat a Persimmon Carla Sofia Ferreira is a Portuguese-American poet from Newark, New Jersey who teaches high school English in Newark today. She’s received fellowships from the Sundress Academy for the Arts and DreamYard Radical Poetry Consortium. Her micro-chap Ironbound Fados was published in 2019 by Ghost City Press and in 2020, she self-published a poetry prompt chapbook for high school students and their teachers, Eat A ...

Tom Snarsky (Of Games, Francis Bacons, and Ducks, Newburyport)

August 16, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 37.4 MB

Read: Tom’s poem Gospel of Thomas, which he reads on Episode 3. Tom Snarsky is a math teacher who writes poetry. He is a former Robert Noyce Teaching Fellow at Tufts University and a Senior Fellow at the Knowles Teacher Initiative. He is the author of two books forthcoming from Broken Sleep in 2022: Speaking Roles, a collection of poetry interviews, and Complete Sentences, a pamphlet of poems about teaching. He is also the author of the chapbook Threshold, published in 2018 by Anot...

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